Sport across Asia politics, cultures, and identities
This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and '"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounte...
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New York, NY
Routledge
2013
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| Series: | Routledge research in sport, culture and society
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From Asian Sports to Sport in Asia / Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz and Joseph Maguire
- 1. Anthropological Perspectives on Sport and Culture: Against Sports as the Essence of Western Modernity / Ingrid Kummels
- 2. Civilising Bodies: Somatic Engineering in China / Denise Gimpel
- 3. Sport in Japan in the Early 21st Century: An Interpretation / Lee Thompson
- 4. The Memory of Colonialism and Imagined Unification: Two Distinctive Natures of South Korean Sporting Nationalism in the 21st Century / Jung Woo Lee and Joseph Maguire
- 5. Representing True Laos in Post-Colonial Southeast Asia: Regional Dynamics in the Globalization of Sport / Simon Creak
- 6. The Debate on 'Revival' and the Physical Culture Movement in Western India (1900-1950) / Namrata R. Ganneri
- 7. Martial Arts Iranian Style: Zurkhane Heavy Athletics and Wrestling Contested / Birgit Krawietz
- 8. The Development of Mountaineering in Republican Turkey / Funda Akcan and Nefise Bulgu
- 9. The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain as a Modern Sport Hub / Katrin Bromber and Birgit Krawietz